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Wednesday Martin

(1900) Historian

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Wednesday Martin is a historian.

Quick Facts About Wednesday Martin

Born: November 30, 1900
Profession: Historian

About Wednesday Martin

[Wikidata] American writer... | [Wikipedia] Wendy "Wednesday" Martin is an American author and cultural critic who writes and comments on parenting, step-parenting, female sexuality, motherhood, and popular culture. She has written several books and for The New York Times, The Atlantic, Psychology Today, The Huffington Post, Harper's Bazaar,

Quotes by Wednesday Martin

I feel that rich women are soft targets.... There's a lot of legitimate resentment and anger about inequality in our culture, about…

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Culture

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I think the most relative thing is that women in a way that I think people haven't given us credit for, want…

Wednesday Martin

Autonomy

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It's possible to be a woman married to a very wealthy, powerful man but to be relatively disempowered. Not just relative to…

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Marriage

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On the Upper East Side, women are prisoners to the ideology of intensive motherhood, which is that you should be enriching your…

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Children

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I'm a primate, you know? I need to be pro-social, like all of us; I need to be pro-social and affiliative. I…

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Campfire

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If you're trying to forge bonds on something other than kinship, and forge a tribal identity on something other than relatedness, conformity…

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Conformity

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Women are looking out for other women and their children. There are some great nannies, and there are some horrible nannies. And…

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Blame

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This is a culture of female display. And the reason it's a culture of female display is that on the Upper East…

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Choices

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